Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on BioGrid: Biomedical Computations on the Grid

The 11 papers in this special section focus on biomedical computations on the grid.

[1]  Mathilde Romberg.  The UNICORE architecture: seamless access to distributed resources , 1999, Proceedings. The Eighth International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (Cat. No.99TH8469).

[2]  Ami Marowka,et al.  The GRID: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure , 2000, Parallel Distributed Comput. Pract..

[3]  Mathilde Romberg,et al.  The UNICORE Grid infrastructure , 2002, Sci. Program..

[4]  Jia Liu,et al.  XML-Based Data Model and Architecture for a Knowledge-Based Grid-Enabled Problem-Solving Environment for High-Throughput Biological Imaging , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[5]  Carl Taswell,et al.  DOORS to the Semantic Web and Grid With a PORTAL for Biomedical Computing , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[6]  Martin Hofmann-Apitius,et al.  Grid-Added Value to Address Malaria , 2006, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[7]  Alex Rodriguez,et al.  Interoperability of GADU in Using Heterogeneous Grid Resources for Bioinformatics Applications , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[8]  David B. Keator,et al.  A National Human Neuroimaging Collaboratory Enabled by the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[9]  Marty Humphrey,et al.  From Legion to Legion-G to OGSI.NET: object-based computing for Grids , 2003, Proceedings International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.

[10]  Changtao Qu,et al.  Semantics-Enabled Service Discovery Framework in the SIMDAT Pharma Grid , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[11]  Weiguo Liu,et al.  A Hybrid Computational Grid Architecture for Comparative Genomics , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[12]  Ian Foster,et al.  The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century Science , 2002 .

[13]  Francine Berman,et al.  Overview of the Book: Grid Computing – Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality , 2003 .

[14]  Ian T. Foster,et al.  Globus: a Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit , 1997, Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl..

[15]  Ian T. Foster,et al.  Replica selection in the Globus Data Grid , 2001, Proceedings First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid.

[16]  John F. Karpovich,et al.  Support for extensibility and site autonomy in the Legion grid system object model , 2003, J. Parallel Distributed Comput..

[17]  Andrew S. Grimshaw,et al.  The Legion Grid Portal , 2002, Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp..

[18]  José M. Alonso,et al.  A Grid Computing-Based Approach for the Acceleration of Simulations in Cardiology , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[19]  Steven Tuecke,et al.  Protocols and services for distributed data-intensive science , 2002 .

[20]  M. Humphrey,et al.  LegionFS: A Secure and Scalable File System Supporting Cross-Domain High-Performance Applications , 2001, ACM/IEEE SC 2001 Conference (SC'01).

[21]  David F. Snelling,et al.  UNICORE: uniform access to supercomputing as an element of electronic commerce , 1999, Future Gener. Comput. Syst..

[22]  Piotr Bała,et al.  UNICORE – An Uniform Platform for Chemistry on the Grid , 2002 .

[23]  Manolis Tsiknakis,et al.  A Semantic Grid Infrastructure Enabling Integrated Access and Analysis of Multilevel Biomedical Data in Support of Postgenomic Clinical Trials on Cancer , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[24]  Russ Miller,et al.  Molecular structure determination on a computational and data Grid , 2004, IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2004. CCGrid 2004..

[25]  Thomas Tolxdorff,et al.  DICOM Image Communication in Globus-Based Medical Grids , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[26]  W.Alcock,et al.  Globus Toolkit Support for Distributed Data—Intensive Science , 2001 .

[27]  Tony Pan,et al.  Large-Scale Biomedical Image Analysis in Grid Environments , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

[28]  Brian Tierney,et al.  File and Object Replication in Data Grids , 2001, Proceedings 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing.